November 01, 2012

CROSSWORD #485: Against All Odds

PROGRAM: [Java]
Guess who was in the Financial Times this week? Yeah, this guy was. Click here and choose the second link down if you care to read the article. For those keeping score at home, that's another bucket list entry ticked off. Only somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,500 left to go. What can I say? Despite already knocking off roughly 1,700 of said entries, I have a lot of things I want to do! I'd better get busy.

Speaking of newspapers with the word "Times" in their names, I will have this Sunday's New York Times puzzle. Twitter/Facebook followers will get the link when it goes live. For everyone else, you can see it on Monday.

Heads up: Patrick Blindauer, one of my favorite people in puzzledom, just announced presales for his latest puzzle suite, the fourth in a series. I've done all of them so I can vouch for the quality. At $11.11, too, this one's a no-brainer.

Lastly, for those who are fans of the themed puzzles and typically skip the Monday themelesses, next week's puzzles will be swapped out. That is to say, the next puzzle will be themed and Thursday's will be sans theme. Please plan accordingly.

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PROGRAM: [Java]
Guess who was in the Financial Times this week? Yeah, this guy was. Click here and choose the second link down if you care to read the article. For those keeping score at home, that's another bucket list entry ticked off. Only somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,500 left to go. What can I say? Despite already knocking off roughly 1,700 of said entries, I have a lot of things I want to do! I'd better get busy.

Speaking of newspapers with the word "Times" in their names, I will have this Sunday's New York Times puzzle. Twitter/Facebook followers will get the link when it goes live. For everyone else, you can see it on Monday.

Heads up: Patrick Blindauer, one of my favorite people in puzzledom, just announced presales for his latest puzzle suite, the fourth in a series. I've done all of them so I can vouch for the quality. At $11.11, too, this one's a no-brainer.

Lastly, for those who are fans of the themed puzzles and typically skip the Monday themelesses, next week's puzzles will be swapped out. That is to say, the next puzzle will be themed and Thursday's will be sans theme. Please plan accordingly.

Brendan Emmett Quigley has been a professional puzzlemaker since 1996. In fact, he's the sixth-most published constructor in The New York Times under Will Shortz's editorship. Brendan's puzzles have also appeared in every major market including Creators Syndicate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Crosswords Club, Dell Champion, Games Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Sun, Tribune Media Services, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

He regularly contributes work to The AV Crossword Club, Bawdy Crosswords, Spirit Magazine, Visual Thesaurus, and The Weekly Dig. At one point in time, Blender, Electronic Business, Paste Magazine, Quarterly Review of Wines, The Stranger, Time Out New York, and Wired.com ran his work. His puzzles have been mentioned on episodes of "The Colbert Report," "Jeopardy!," and "Sunday Night Football."

He is the author of over thirty different books. In his spare time he can be seen banging on typewriters in the Boston Typewriter Orchestra.
He will be posting two puzzles a week — on Monday and Thursday.
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